Assign Short Story Technique Analysis PaperOverview of Analysis

Background on Albert CamusExistentialism

Discuss “The Guest”

HomeworkRead “Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor

(486) & complete a story card

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Short Story Technique Analysis PaperSelect an interpretive short story from the

unit as the focus for your analysis.Identify a question from the AP open question

list you feel best relates to your story.Write an analytical article using relevant

textual examples to answer the selected question.

Formal tone, scholarly style, MLA citations Suggested length: 3-4 pages

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Albert Camus (1913-1960)Raised in Algeria by

semi-proletarian parentsInterest in philosophy

(majored in it in college, intended to teach), revolution

Moved to France @ 25 after writing essay on state of Muslims in Algeria & losing his job

Joined resistance movement during Nazi occupation of France

Columnist for underground newspaper Combat after liberation

Developed concept of the absurd: “human life is rendered ultimately meaningless by the fact of death and that the individual cannot make rational sense of his experience”

1957 Nobel Prize for Literature

1960 died in car wreck

“The Myth of Sisyphus” (1942)Expounds Camus's notion

of the absurd and of its acceptance with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction".

The Stranger (1942)A young Algerian, becomes

embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing an Arabian man. The trial's proceedings are absurd so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.

Fun Fact: The Cure’s song, “Killing an Arab” is based on this novel.

The Plague (1947)The plague's takeover of

Oran, the port city in northern Algeria where the story is set, is an allegory for the spread of fascism .

In his own words:“More and more, when faced

with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.”

“In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.”

Existentialism1st used as term by Søren KierkegaardExplicitly adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul

SartreInfluenced Albert Camus, although they broke in the

1940’sExistentialism attempts to describe our desire to make

rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe.

Unfortunately, life might be without inherent meaning (existential atheists) or it might be without a meaning we can understand (existential theists). human desires for logic and immortality are futileThe Individual Defines Everything.

More on ExistentialismEmphasizes individual existence, freedom,

and choice.Existence precedes essence. By this,

existentialism states that man exists and in that existence man defines himself and the world in his own subjectivity, and wanders between choice, freedom, and existential angst

We choose, and in choosing (in good or bad faith) we define ourselves. Choice is a definition of an existence in the world, towards an object outside of itself.

Angst results from doubting our acts Without clear moral indicators, doubt is inevitable

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People associated with Existentialism

Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber in Germany

Nineteenth century philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, came to be seen as precursors of the movement

In literature: Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Kafka , Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco

In art: Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman were understood in existential terms

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http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/ http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/ http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Albert-Camus/dp/

0679720200 http://www.bookrags.com/notes/pla/ http://batr.org/solitary/102203.html